Carpet-making appliance.



R. HEYMANN.

CARPET MAKING APPLIANCE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. so, 1913.

1,096,302. Patented May 12, 1914.

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ROBERT HEYMANN,. OE PAR-IS,

CARPET-MAKING APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lttay 12, 1914;.

Application filed January 30, 1913. Serial No. 745,181.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, ROBERT Hermann, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at 82 Rue de Bondy, Paris, in the Bepublic of France, manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Making Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a carpet making appliance or similar device so simple in its construction and operation that it can be easily used by persons knowing nothing of the art and can even serve as a plaything for children. Such appliance is made up, in principle, of a frame on which is stretched the fabric used as the basis of the work and of a perforated plate which is secured at a certain distance above the fame and the fabric. It is also pro vided with a movable bar for maintaining at least at the part which is being worked, a determined interval between the perforated plate and the stretched fabric regardless of the relative flexibility of such surfaces, such rule being displaced as the work is being proceeded with.

One embodiment of this invention is shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the loom. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 8 is a detail section on a larger scale.

1 designates a rigid frame provided with a certain number of blunt points for the purpose of stretching the fabric 3. On two opposite sides of the frame bars 4: are provided, such bars being secured to the perforated plate 5 which is thus held at a determined distance from the fabric 3. The bars l are provided with holes which are engaged on the corresponding points 2 so as to prevent the plate 5 from moving with respect to the frame 1 in any direction except the upward direction. In this latter direction, the plate 5 will benheld by the work itself. In order to prevent the fabric from approaching the plate, at the part which is being worked, a'movable bar 6 is provided, such bar being of the same thickness as that of the bars a.

The mode of use of the appliance is a very simple one; fabric is placed on the frame 1 so as to be stretched on the points 2, and then the plate 5 is put on the frame, the lateral bars 4 being applied on the fabric and the bar 6 placed near the place where it is desired to begin the work. Such work consists 1n passing the wool by means of a needle alternately upward and downward through the fabric and the plate the wool being passed each time through a fresh perforation in the latter. Of course, wools of d fferent colorscan be used when it is desired to obtain designs. As the work procoeds the bar 6 ismoved to keep up the re qulred spacing. When the work is done, all

the loops for-med above the plate 5 are cut by scissors as shown at 7 in Fig. 3. It may be advantageous before cutting the loops to coat the under side of the fabric with a very diluted solution of any suitable glue. Then the perforated plate may be withdrawn. Each strand of wool fiber is secured to the fabric by sewing the same with a thread 8 to the under side of the work. Of course, such fastening may be done before the loops are cut.

The proportions of the work may be greater than those of the loom. Such work will be done in portions as hereinbefore described. If required, the top of the work may be made even, but cutting with proper scissors those ends of the wool which are longer than the others.

It will be advantageous to make the frame and the perforated plate of iron or other metal and the bars 4 and 6 of wood. However, the invention is not limited to such materials. The mode of fastening the fabric either to the frame 1 or to the bars 4 of the plate may be varied without departing from the invention. The bars 4: and the frame 1 may furthermore be detachably united together.

I claim.

1. An appliance for making long pile carpet comprising a sheet-iron perforated plate having a large number of perforations arranged in checkered fashion and means whereby to secure parallelly to such sheetiron perforated plate a fabric which will constitute the back of the carpet.

2. An appliance for making long pile carpet comprising a sheet-iron perforated plate provided with a multitude of checkered holes, fastening-bars secured to one face of such sheet-iron perforated plate and means whereby to secure on such fastening-bars a fabric which will constitute the back of the carpet.

3. An appliance for making long pile carpet comprising a sheet-iron perforated plate,

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fastening-bars secured to one face of such sheetiron perforated plate and having holes therein, and a frame adapted to be applied on such fastening bars at the side opposite to the sheet-iron perforated plate, such frame having points directed toward the said sheet-iron perforated plate and designed to penetrate a fabric which will con stitute the back or under side of the carpet and to enter into the said holes of the said fastening-bars.

al. An appliance for making long pile carpet comprising a sheet-iron perforated plate, fastening-bars secured to one face of such sheet-iron perforated plate, means whereby to secure on such fastening-bars a fabric which will constitute the back or under side of the carpet and a free movable-bar having the same thickness as the said fastening-bars secured to the sheet-iron perforated plate and designed to be slid between the said plate and the said fabric.

5. An appliance for making long pile carpets, comprising a plate provided with closely arranged pile receiving perforations; a pair of fastening bars secured to one face of the plate; and means for securing a carpet-back to the bars.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT HE YMANN.

Vitnesses EUGENE VVATTIER, HANSON G. Ooxn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

